Updated 02:03 AM PHT Thu, December 1, 2016

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — The mass action at the People Power Monument against the burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayanicontinued well into the night on Wednesday although the crowd had begun to thin out late in the evening.

The protesters were mostly young people or “millennials” from groups called Coalition Against the Marcos burial in LNMB and Millennials Against Dictators.

Martial law victims and their families also attended, along with several artists and performers.

Several government personalities also graced the event like the recently-resigned head of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), Sen. Leila de Lima, former DILG Sec. Mar Roxas, Rep. Edcel Lagman and lawyer Barry Gutierrez.

Protesters called the event Siklab Bayan which they said was aimed at holding the Duterte administration fully accountable for the secret burial of Marcos. They also relived the crimes they claimed the Marcoses have committed during martial law.

They said they would fight for their history, which was once fought for by the real heroes of the country.

Earlier in the day, protesters massed up at various locations in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

Filipinos abroad were also set to stage their own rally in Vancouver in Canada as well as in parts of the United States like San Francisco, New York, Chicago. A group of Filipinos in Edinburg, Scotland were also joining the protest.